Walter Bernstein

March 17–18, 2003

Bio

Among the most eminent living screenwriters, Walter Bernstein was first a
regular contributor to The New Yorker and wrote for some of early
television's finest dramatic shows. He is best known as the writer of
films, among them Fail Safe, The Molly Maguires, The
Magnificant Seven, and The Front (for which he received an
Academy Award nomination). During the anticommunist period, he was
blacklisted and could not work openly as a writer. His memoir, Inside
Out, is an account of this experience.